and Samuel Johnson. Established on the notion of 'friendly association and the study of current literature', other founding members included published authors, journalists, educators and pressmen, including James Brunton Stephens, Horace Earle, William Senior, John Warde, and Gresley Lukin. Like the original Literary club, the Brisbane club defined itself by gender, profession, class and a belief in the elevating effects of cultural, and in particular literary, exchange. Although there was a spate of replicas of the original literary club formed all around the world in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Sweden and Japan, the Brisbane club was the first. In 1905, four years after the death of his first wife, when Nicholson was approaching 70 years of age, a German-born translator and scholar, Anna Cordes, who had been attracted by his work, came to Australia from California and married him. In his later years Nicholson, who had always been inclined to be erratic, would sometimes voluntarily go to the Goodna mental hospital until he felt fit to face the world again. He died at Brisbane on 30 June 1923 at the age of 85, and was buried with his first wife, Anna Wagner, in the Nundah cemetery. Anna Cordes survived Nicholson, later marrying the amateur astronomer, Dudley Eglinton F.R.A.S. There were no children from either marriage, but Nicholson and his first wife had adopted a daughter, Janey (Jane Wagner Nicholson), who became a teacher of German in Queensland schools, and who died 24 November 1934. In 1986, students of the Nundah State School raised money for a plaque to be placed on Nicholson's grave, honouring his status as the first head teacher at the school. At its unveiling, his patriotic song 'Rouse Australians' written in 1889 was performed. Beside his headstone there rests a smaller stone inscribed simply with the word 'Halek' in Gothic letters. Legacy Nicholson, along with friends George Essex Evans and James Brunton Stephens, was the recipient of a Commonwealth Literary Fund pension from 1908. The fund was designed to support recognised authors who, by reason of age or infirmity were unable to support themselves, or if having died impoverished, to support their widows and families. The State Library of Queensland holds Nicholson's papers, as well as his books, unpublished manuscripts and collections of poetry. List of works The mysterious cooks: a tale of Australia; to which is added Christmas in Queensland by Tadberry Gilcobs.